The State of U.S. History

The State of U.S. History offers an exciting introduction to the debates surrounding the major trends in American historical development and the crucial events and influences that have helped define the American experience.

Melvyn Stokes is a Senior Lecturer in American History, at the University College London.

Acknowledgements

vii

Notes on Contributors

ix

Introduction

1

(22)

Melvyn Stokes

Part I Themes and Periods

Writing the History of the American Revolution

23

(22)

Simon P. Newman

Reshaping Society: American Social History from Revolution to Reconstruction

45

(24)

Christopher Clark

Rediscovering Jacksonian America

69

(24)

Daniel Feller

The Evangelical Surge and the Significance of Religion in the Early United States, 1783--1865

93

(22)

Mark A. Noll

The New Deal in American Scholarship

115

(16)

Alan Brinkley

Beyond the ``Age of McCarthy'': Anticommunism and the Historians

131

(24)

Michael J. Heale

Segregation and Civil Rights: African American Freedom Strategies in the Twentieth Century

155

(24)

Adam Fairclough

Part II Fields

Industrial History: The State of the Art

179

(20)

Howell John Harris

Intellectual History, Democracy, and the Culture of Irony

199

(24)

James T. Kloppenberg

Women's History and Gender

223

(22)

S. Jay Kleinberg

Print and the Public Sphere in Early America

245

(20)

Robert A. Gross

The Rise of Film History

265

(20)

Melvyn Stokes

Part III Regional History

The American West: From Exceptionalism to Internationalism

285

(22)

Patricia Nelson Limerick

Orpheus Turning: The Present State of Southern History

307

(20)

Michael O'Brien

Part IV Perspectives and Problems

Class and the Construction of ``Race'': White Racism in the American South

327

(20)

Michael Tadman

Imagining Indians: Differing Perspectives on Native American History

347

(20)

Joy Porter

Class in American History: Issues and a Case Study

367

(20)

John Ashworth

Conflict by Consent: Popular Commitment, Community Participation, and the War for the Union

387

(20)

Peter J. Parish

By Way of DuBois: The Question of Black Initiative in the Civil War and Reconstruction

407

(18)

David Turley

Index

425

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

The State of U.S. History

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials